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A European-styled public realm integrating colour and play. Since its expansion City Walk has become one of Dubai’s most beloved shopping and dining destinations. Working closely with Benoy and AECOM, the public spaces of City Walk were designed by Cracknell as a human-scaled urban environment, offering classic and contemporary outdoor lifestyle experiences.

City Walk’s hardscape design uses a modern international style and explores the drama and colour of the development’s outdoor connectivity, lightshows and media screens. Open plazas and European-styled boulevards are encircled by a connected pedestrian plaza. A centrepiece of the development, the Luxury Courtyard, takes inspiration from traditional Italian courtyard design.

City Walk comes alive at night, where it’s a safe and controlled environment for visitors to enjoy the shopping, dining and entertainment on offer.

Photography by Alessandro Merati © Cracknell

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Coffee Zone DIFC

This transitional space and stairway access point in Dubai’s DIFC provides shaded and cooling respite from the heat for people passing through, whilst also creating a verdant pocket park for lunchtime gathering and cafe spill-out.

As temperatures increase, a key way to maintain comfort for walkable urban environments is through the planting of trees and shrubs.

Photography by Alessandro Merati © Cracknell

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Marwan Kandil

Marwan is a highly knowledgeable, skilled Landscape Architect with over 16 years’ experience in all areas of landscape design, from the early construction stages to project management. A self-starter and team player with an ability to develop strong client relationships, Marwan has a track record for successful completion of projects across a broad range of sectors including residential, commercial, urban and civic landscapes as well as sports facilities.

Marwan takes great pleasure in developing concept designs into buildable schemes that both serve the end-user needs and are sustainable and harmonious with the surrounding landscape or cityscape.

Mudon

People are living books. The real library of life is community.”

Bryant H. McGill

A series of expansive residential communities interspersed with neighbourhood and pocket parks, pools, outdoor gyms and play areas. A shaded network of paths links the backs of the houses to the amenities and provides places to run, bike, socialise, play and relax.

Photography by Alessandro Merati © Cracknell

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Mulberry Heights Dubai Hills

A park-like setting creates a relaxed green environment for this community of 330 apartments near the Dubai Hills Golf Club and Dubai Downtown.

Set amidst the wider landscape of the Dubai Hills Estate, residents have access to common terrace areas with uninterrupted views of the landscape. Healthy lifestyles are encouraged with sports facilitates including jogging and cycling tracks that weave through the community, connecting to the neighbouring schools, shops, cafés and hotels.

Rahul Gokhale

Rahul has 25 years’ experience as a Chartered Accountant in the Middle East. As a Group Finance Manager at Cracknell, he is responsible for the financial health and processes, and accounting of the Group across its international locations.

Rahul is passionate about creating sustainable fiscal health within Cracknell to engage the stakeholders, build trust and create a stable financial environment in which to support the Group’s design and growth aspirations.

Rathakrishnan

Rathakrishnan has 31 years’ experience as an irrigation design professional in the Middle East region and India. As a Senior Associate Irrigation Engineer, he has a leading role in designing many types of irrigation systems for landscape projects across Cracknell’s global portfolio.

Rathakrishnan has a wealth of knowledge in computer aided design & drafting with AutoCAD and database management. He is passionate about design customisation and guiding the design team to achieve project deliverables with competitive industrial standards.

Ravindra Lawhale

Ravi has 28 years’ experience as an irrigation design and supervision expert
across the Middle East and India. At Cracknell he designs, executes, supervises,
and maintains all kinds of irrigation and drainage systems including those for Golf
Courses.

Ravi is passionate about sustainable irrigation design by adopting IOT
enabled water use monitoring & controlling techniques and conservation tools.

Old Town Residences

Bringing Arabian opulence to the thriving downtown district of Dubai, this residential area revives a traditional regional heritage.

A tranquil oasis for residents with open pedestrian spaces, subtle lighting effects, exquisite water features thoughtfully placed throughout, and elegant desert-themed planting, the gardens and grounds shelter the development from the heavily-trafficked area surrounding the nearby Burj Khalifa and Boulevard.

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Swan Lake West

Swan Lake West is a large-scale world-class urban community, bringing to New Cairo an extensively landscaped public realm and a sophisticated outdoor lifestyle.

This forward-thinking prestigious mixed-use neighbourhood development with twelve gated communities is arranged along a generous tree-lined boulevard. Open amenity spaces and a pedestrian-friendly walkable path network link the various neighbourhoods and provide an environment for healthy social living.